Edward Stachura

"I'm dying For my sins and my innocence"

"I walk here, I walk there Always alone in a crowd of people."

"Life is a theater."

"You could die like nothing else: To the veins There is a knife. Or down On the pavement From on high. But is it worth it? Maybe it's not worth it? I guess it's not worth it... No, no - it's not worth it."

"You will be happier with him, You will be much happier with him. Me, well – Vagabond, restless spirit, Only with me you can Go to the moor And forget everything."

"Anyone who has not crawled through the tunnel of loneliness does not know the taste of real life."

"More than dying, I wanted only one thing: to live."

"I'd be lying if I said I didn't often think about suicide as a way out of my hell. But it's not obvious to me. There is not a single obvious thing in my poor head."

"I'm only 42 years old, so I probably have a long time ahead of me. And wouldn't it be possible to meet death? Wouldn't that be normal in my situation?"

"I see no reason for my existence here on earth."

"Once upon a time, when I was still Edward Stachura, I thought that people live too long. That he should live one day like some butterflies. Or one year, from spring to winter. Schopenhauer says that, considering all the pros and cons, it would be better for man not to have been born. I'm 42 years old and I feel like I'm carrying 420 of them. I've lived hard. Something new every day. I didn't fall into any routine."

"When you think and think about death as the only salvation, how can you live then?"

"You have to be of a special constitution to be able to live the way most people live. Work, home, sleep. Work, home, sleep. This is how you survive life. Baptism, wedding, funeral."